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11.20.1.3 Prohibition Against Requisition Labor Such That Workers AreMobilized in a Military or Semi-Military Organization. In no case shall requisition of labor leadto a mobilization of workers in an organization of a military or semi-military character. 37411.20.1.4 Prohibition Against Forcing Inhabitants to Provide Information Aboutthe Opposing Army or Its Means of Defense. A belligerent is forbidden to force the inhabitantsof territory occupied by it to furnish information about the army of the other belligerent, or aboutits means of defense. 375 This obligation also results from the general prohibition against use ofphysical or moral coercion against protected persons. 37611.20.1.5 Prohibition Against Other Work That Would Involve Protected Personsin the Obligation of Taking Part in Military Operations. Protected persons may not becompelled to undertake any work that would involve them in the obligation of taking part inmilitary operations. 377 This rule is formulated more broadly than the general rule againstcompelling a national to take part in operations against his or her own country 378 because itprohibits compulsory service in any military operation. 379374 GC art. 51 (“In no case shall requisition of labour lead to a mobilization of workers in an organization of amilitary or semi-military character.”).375 HAGUE IV REG. art. 44 (“A belligerent is forbidden to force the inhabitants of territory occupied by it to furnishinformation about the army of the other belligerent, or about its means of defence.”).376 GC COMMENTARY 220 (“Furthermore, coercion is forbidden for any purpose or motive whatever. The authors ofthe Convention had mainly in mind coercion aimed at obtaining information, work or support for an ideological orpolitical idea. The scope of the text is more general than that of Article 44 of the Hague Regulations of 1907, underwhich ‘a belligerent is forbidden to force the inhabitants of a territory occupied by it to furnish information about thearmy of the other belligerent, or about its means of defence’; Article 31 prohibits coercion for any purpose or reasonand the obtaining of information is only given as an example. Thus, the custom, hitherto accepted in practice butdisputed in theory, that an invasion army may force the inhabitants of an occupied territory to serve as ‘guides’ isnow forbidden.”). Refer to § 10.5.3.1 (No Physical or Moral Coercion).377 GC art. 51 (“Protected persons may not be compelled to undertake any work which would involve them in theobligation of taking part in military operations.”). See also HAGUE IV REG. art. 52 (“Requisitions in kind andservices shall not be demanded from municipalities or inhabitants except for the needs of the army of occupation.They shall be in proportion to the resources of the country, and of such a nature as not to involve the inhabitants inthe obligation of taking part in military operations against their own country.”).378 Refer to § 5.27 (Prohibition Against Compelling Enemy Nationals to Take Part in the Operations of War DirectedAgainst Their Own Country).379 GC COMMENTARY 296-97 (“The prohibition in this sentence is even more general than that contained in Article52 of the Hague Regulations; for it does not only embrace work involving the participation of the inhabitants in‘military operations against their own country’, but refers in a general way to any work ‘which would involve themin the obligation of taking part in military operations’. The importance of the distinction will be realised if the mindis cast back to cases when the occupying authorities have tried to circumvent the law of war by pretending that theyare no longer engaged in military operations against the home country of the persons whose services they arerequisitioning.”).801